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Now for the biggies: McLaren F1 and various F1 cars by McLaren (I’m thinking MP4/4, MP-12/13/14, MP4/22, MP4/22/26).

I meant MP4/22 and MP4/25/26. Sorry.

Very very great !!!!!!

Happy iRacing subscribers on that.

Am I the only one who would prefer iRacing to create less powerfull cars?

I love “driving” the Solice or Mx5 but the more powerfull cars… I find them less realistic and less well simulated.

No you are not. 

Driving a Solice or Miata is fucking boring. You can drive the less powerful cars in real life.

Driving a Solice or Miata in a sim is fucking boring. You can drive these less powerful cars in real life without ruining your bank account.  

Driving a Solice or Miata in a sim is fucking boring… what’s more, you can drive these cheap less powerful cars in real life without ruining your bank account.

I’m not sure about the “without ruining your bank account” part there… But the low power cars can provide competitive racing just like the high power cars. The handling changes, but the best man wins either way.

The problem for all sims is finding a balance between the thrill we all seek driving glamorous cars, and being able to make those cars feel convincing *and* satisfying using a desktop race setup.

Many fast cars in all sims are very hard to enjoy (without aids) because of the lack of seat-of-the-pants feedback. The slower cars tend to be those which are forgiving enough for mere mortals (as opposed to sim racing gods with laser-fast reaction times) to enjoy.

That’s why iRacing’s most popular series are all at the slower, simpler end of the spectrum, even after all this time.

I will still buy this, obviously, because I’m terminally stupid… or endlessly optimistic. Maybe one day I’ll find something fatser than the Skip Barber which I can actually keep on the track. Mind you, since the NTM was released the Skip’s no longer a walk in the park! :->

I agree something around Touring Car pace should be produced. Even when I was primarily racing rfactor for many years I had the best races in the slower to medium paced cars.

I thought people would be going nuts over this ?

Also, it would have been nice for them to concentrate on a single category, like having some 3 GT3 cars instead of one from each GT*  :’(

people cant even handle having two different mx5s without crying that one is faster than the other, get rid of the babies and maybe they could

why has my post been deleted by the owner of this site  when iracing didn’t themselves delete it at their forums???? anyway I’m posting again and hope it doesn’t get deleted again…

Not so excited with this! The Maclaren is been said to have a horrible handling and I think the Ford GT is a much better adition BUT if iRacing can’t fix the content which they have now this is pointless! The Ford GT is broken up to this day the NTM is broken so many things are broken in iRacing so I think this will be broken when released and by 2013/2014 they will fix the broken Maclaren. Litereally iRacing is selling beta stuff to people!

iRacing was born in the oval side they are quite clueless how to deal with new content for the road side. Skip barber? Star Mazda? Mid pack F1 car? Multi-class when the faster car drivers have no clue how to race in MC? Man thinks ain’t looking good there!

I’m sure there are lot of people who are going nuts over the announcement but this site is nothing more than a sounding board to those unhappy with pretty much everything.

I’m not sure what you are complaining about with the open wheelers?

Skip Barber is a great entry level open wheeler and is one of the most popular series in the service. Star Mazda is a natural step up, with a great community behind that car.

Agree, I have the best online champs in my life with WTCC (Race07 fand RaceX for Rfactor), and with Porsche 997, quick car but “not so quick”.

Those graphics are crap. They could work on the shaders more LOL. (I might as well as join the graphics whore complainers)

I personally can’t stand the slower cars. Besides, this a GT3, so hardly the fastest thing out there and it is something that iRacing didn’t offer, while slow cars there are plenty of them. (Miata, Solstice, SRF, Skippy, Mustang, Jetta, we definitely don’t need more of those).

We could use a S2000 though, but this one is more exciting.

give me British F3 GP3 GP2 F2 F-Renault 3.5 F Nippon to name a few which I would much rather have than a Skippy or a Star Mazda or a Mid pack F1 crap!

Your call of ‘clueless’ only holds true if you’re talking about European open wheel racing. They’ve done pretty well with the American road to Indy and sports car racing.

A GT3 has much more in common with a GT2 than the slower touring cars you listed above. GT3 pole time at Spa this year was 2:24.5 and LMS GT2 was 2:20.3. That’s only a 3% difference in laptimes.

I do want a WTCC/BTCC car, that would pretty much fill out the touring/sports car ladders.

Ye we’ll see about this one. They aren’t really convincing people about their quality when they keep releasing the content barely functioning or driving nothing like it should.
Hopefully they’ll notice when most of the simracers have passed trough! their service and moved on to something better

Where’s SBKRacer?